[Fully and directly funded opportunities. Funding includes Home or International fees for 42 months and UKRI standard stipend which is currently £20,780 for 2025/26 academic year. Funded by Faculty of Arts, Business, and Social Sciences.] The University of Surrey’s School of Arts, Humanities, and Creative Industries is offering four fully funded PhD studentships for outstanding postgraduate researchers. These studentships are designed to support innovative and impactful research that aligns with...

The President’s Doctoral Scholar Award at The University of Manchester offers a fully funded PhD opportunity focused on the prevention of species loss and its implications for human health and wellbeing. This interdisciplinary project explores the historical and cultural roots of conservation, de-extinction, and rewilding, tracing their development from the nineteenth century to the present. The research will examine how longstanding ideas about the therapeutic and restorative potential of natur...

The University of Manchester invites applications for a fully funded PhD project titled '[PDS Award] The Future of Sex: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Sexual Biology and Gender Studies.' This innovative doctoral research responds to the evolving role of 'sex' as an organising concept in the humanities, aiming to bridge insights from gender and sexuality studies with recent scientific developments in sexual biology. The project leverages the humanities' capacity to interrogate the social and cul...